The minority antigovernment demonstrators want the current administration replaced with a nonelected “people’s council” in order to fight corruption, which they say has plagued Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government, as well as her brother’s, who was deposed in a 2006 coup.

Yingluck called for a Feb. 2 vote in order to quell unrest in the country that has pitted Bangkok’s middle classes and southern Thais against progovernment supporters from the poorer but populous north.

A confrontation in front of a polling center left 11 people wounded and a protest faction leader shot dead, while brawls broke out in Bangkok.

Advertisers who support Democracy should stop advertising in a media which is a tool of anti-democracy forces. Stop buying Bangkokpost newspapers.

Newspapers and online media in virtually all countries in Asia have reported a US State Department statement. Yet Thailand's English media BangkokPost refused to mention it at all. Not surprising, Bangkokpost
is owned by the Chirathivat family, who owns the Central Group, which leases
royally owned land for their malls, hotels and properties. By necessity, and
close association, they are royalists and will not publish views deemed
otherwise. That's why their forums allow so much hatred and lies from
royalists, yet hardly publishes facts that counter such lies. Perhaps
multinational companies that believes in democracy should stop advertising in
Bangkokpost until such time they stop being servants of those feudal lords who
cause so much suffering to the poor.

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US State
Department issued a statement that it is not biased as alleged by the PDRC. "The
United States is deeply troubled by efforts to block polls and otherwise
prevent voting in Thailand, and by the most recent acts of political
violence," State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said in a
statement."While we do not take sides in the political dispute and
strongly support freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest,
preventing citizens from voting violates their universal rights and is
inconsistent with democratic values," Psaki said.

I knew when clinton showed up; the country would incur the wrath. I still remember colombia. These elitists only have one view... that is instability and murderous ways; to get to your rare minerals. Good luck.